brickworks
Sign in to savethumb|Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields, which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.
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- Equipment
- Brick making
- Environmental effects
- Historical notes
- Notable brickworks
- See also
- References
thumb|Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields, which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.
==Equipment== thumb|An old Puolimatka's brick factory in Kissanmaa, [[Tampere, Finland, in the 1960s]] Most brickworks have some or all of the following: A kiln, for firing, or 'burning' the bricks. Drying yard or shed, for drying bricks before firing. A building or buildings for manufacturing the bricks. A quarry for clay. A pugmill or clay preparation plant (see below).